| Summary: | Adding tags: redundant menu opening necessary | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08> |
| Component: | Usability-Menus | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | caulier.gilles, marcel.wiesweg |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.9.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 5.1.0 | |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: |
Assign Tags pop-up for KDE4
Proposal for less redundant menu Two columns in rows for submenus |
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Description
Dotan Cohen
2008-03-06 20:58:47 UTC
Dotan, Sorry, but your explaination confuse me. I don't understand all points reported here. Please make a clear report... Gilles Caulier I think I understand Dotan (but don't agree ;) Context menu on image -> Assign tag. You will see menu Holidays > Marta Work > Hobby Holidays and Marta are tags on their own but with subtags. To assign only "Holidays" tag you have to click "Holidays" and navigate furher to submenu: Add new tag... ------------------ Holidays ------------------ France England Germany And choose "Holidays" there. Users not experienced with hierarchical tags could expect that after clicking "Holidays >" from top level menu tag "Holidays" would be assigned without more interaction from them. I completely disagree with his solution because "Holidays >" and "Holidays" are two completely different interface elements. Yes click on "Holidays >" is redundant because just hovering opens sub-menu but this is common behavior in UI to speed up things. What is user only wants to check what is exactly in this sub-menu? There is no way to tell it. There are possibly solutions for that: 1) make "Holidays >" more different visually, eg. put it in italics to make that different from regular tag assigning entries from this menu 2) split it into two elements titled "Holidays" "sub-Holidays >", where "Holidays" assign this tag, and "sub-Holidays >" opens sub-menu To make assigning of tag *slightly* easier maybe small reorganization? Sub-menu could look: Holidays ------------------ Add New Tag... ------------------ France England Germany or Holidays ------------------ France England Germany ------------------ Add New Tag... In that way main tag would be easier to click - just short horizontal move of mouse instead of combined horizontal and vertical. But this will not solve main scope of this bug report. But I am afraid this is the way of living with hierarchical tags. Created attachment 24083 [details]
Assign Tags pop-up for KDE4
Mik,
This is how Marcel have re-implemented Tags pop-up menu for KDE4...
Pop-up menu items are more clean, but of it's not perfect, especially with huge
tags collection
Gilles Caulier
If it is possible to assign eg Animal tag from main menu (without entering with mouse into submenu) I think this bug report can be closed. BTW: "February 2,008" - thousands delimiter in date? C'mon :) Created attachment 24095 [details]
Proposal for less redundant menu
Maybe the tree could be opened with a submenu that appears below the tag.
Dotan, that was one of my proposed solutions. Big drawback of this is size of menus with wide and deep system of tags. If you create 10 top level tags with sub-tags it will require 20 item menu. IMO already coded solution for KDE4 (digiKam 10) is the best. I can only see the screenshot of KDE4, I cannot run it right now. If it allows one to choose a tag with children, without opening the subtree, then I'm all for it. The screenshot does not make it clear if this is possible. Created attachment 24104 [details]
Two columns in rows for submenus
Perhaps there could be two columns for tags with subtags, as illustrated in
attached screenshot.
I doubt this is possible (not a developer though). But KDE4 implementation as shown on screenshot is similar in spirit. Don't know if you hover only on checkbox it wouldn't open submenu. Gilles? Mik, Currently the behaviors is the same between KDE3 and KDE4. In My screenshot posted to #3, you can see than to assign tag "Animal", you need to use "Assign This Tag" sub-menu entry. But on the left of "Animal" entry, you have the checkbox. Currently, this one is an indicator to see if tag is already assigned. It cannot be used to assign this tag as well, but perhaps we can use it for that. This will be natural... So the question is forked to Marcel who have re-implemented Tag pop-up menu for KDE4... Gilles The relevant menu entries are QWidgetActions, this means there is a real QWidget which is using QStyle for 100% custom drawing. The QMenu will close if it notices a mouse click. We could try to use this widget to catch mouse press event, or the QMenu code is installing an event filter, in which case this might not be possible so easily. @Marcel: If the mouse event cannot be captured to click the checkbox, then could the split view as illustrated in comment #8 be used? I dont see high priority for this one, it's more for post-0.10.0. I need to investigate what is possible wrt #11, which usually takes a bit of time and calmness. Certainly not a high priority, I agree. But it would be a nice usability enhancement for those of us who make extensive use of tags. Closing some old bugreports that are related to old digiKam version, and that have not received answers for two years now. If you think the reports are still valid, feel free to re-open them, but please provide updates and do not just open them without giving feedback. New digiKam 4.11.0 is available. https://www.digikam.org/node/740 Can you reproduce the problem with this release ? With digiKam 5.0.0, this problem is not reproducible. I close this file now. Don't hesitate to re-open if necessary. Gilles Caulier |